Plant cover



ay l2, 193L F. GRAFFENBERGER L805212 Filed July 50. 1928 @y @MU/14( gwmw., fw" 'l' j iwatented May 12., 1931 FRIEDRCH GBAFFENBERGER, OF IYLVUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGOR TO MLVAUKEE LACE PAPER COMPANY, 0F MIZWAUKEE, VSCONSN, A CORPORATIQN OF VJ'IS- CONSIN PLANT COVER Application filed .Tuly 30,

My invention relates to plant covers and has for its object an article improved to the ends of greater effectiveness andy durability.

The fundamental purpose of the device to protect young` vegetation against cold and destruction by inclement weather and to save to the vegetation `-the benefit of the suns rays, in the nat-ure of an individual hot-bed.

The plant cover of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a. plan view thereof; and

Figure 2 is a perspective view thereof, part being broken away to clarify the illustration.

lt is constructed of translucent or more or less transparent paper, either waxed or unwaXed, and in any event fairly f'aterproof. Also paper known as dry wax or Wet waxed, bleached or unbleached, may be used.

lt is conveniently manufactured by means of dies from a single circular dish of material and is in the form of a dome comprising a plurality of progressively smaller frustoconical sections a, b, c and cl, an annular vertical shoulder c being formed between sections 0 and Z as shown. The sections a and Z) are fluted, as shown.

ll have found by experiment that a dome so formed has exceptional structural strength, particularly with the fluting of the lower sections and the provision ofthe shoulo der e; the liuting also assists in the expediency of manufacture of the device, and in the shedding of rain, and the shoulder e provides a reinforcement against the ready sagging of the top when wet. |The fluting, furthermore, increases the surface exposed to the suns rays.

The dome is of appropriate size and shape to cover an individual young plant, those I have made being each approximately nine inches in dia-meter and eight inches high upon its vertical axis.

At its lower rim, the dome is provided with an integral horizontally projecting iluted flange upon which soil may be placed to anchor it in proper position over a plant.

I claim l. A plant cover comprising a dome of translucent material formed of a single sheet 1928. Serial No. 296,281.

of n'iaterial in a series of frusto-conical se"- tions some of which are tinted.

2. A plant cover comprising a dome formed from a single sheet of translucent material and consisting of a plurality of frusto-conical sections with a vertical shoulder connecting the uppermost section and the next ade jacent section for reinforcing the top of said dome. Y

3, A plant cover comprising a dome of translucent material formed in a series of frusto-conical sections, the lower sections being fluted and the upper sections having a vertical shoulder there-between. L

4l. A plant cover comprising a dome of translucent material formed in a series of frusto-conical sections, and a horizontallv disposed luted flange at the rim thereof. L

5. A plant cover comprising a dome of translucent material formed in a series of progressively smaller truste-conical sections, some of which are fluted, the luted sections being formed of a single thickness of material throughout their entire extent.

6. A plant cover comprising a dome of translucent material formed in a series of progressively smaller frusto-conical sections, the lowermost one of which is fluted, and a horizontal fluted flange extending outwardly from the hase of said lowerinost section.

ln Witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 12th day of July, 1928.

FREDRlCH GRAFFENBERGE 

